Preliminary notes

• Published date: 22 August 2019
• Date: 22 August 2019

Note to Contributors

The AYIHL invites submission of manuscripts, in English, on subjects relating to

international humanitarian law, policy and action.

A manuscript will be considered for publication:

.Only on the assurance that it has not in whole or in part or in substance been

published or offered for publication elsewhere;

.On the understanding that it may be submitted in confidence to an expert referee or

expert referees for evaluation;

.On the understanding that the editors reserve the right to make what changes they

consider desirable

(a) to bring the manuscript into the house style of the AYIHL;

(b) to eliminate errors of typing, grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling, idiom and

the like;

(c) to eliminate ambiguity, illogicality, tautology, circumlocution and redundancy;

(d) to produce accuracy and coherence;

(e) to improve the mode of expression and style of writing;

(f) to avoid possible criminal or civil liability.

Authors are required to read their manuscripts very carefully to avoid the need for the

editors to exercise these rights extensively. On particular, authors are asked to check the

typescript or computer print out and to acquaint themselves with the house style of the

AYIHL. Note, in particular:

.Words in a foreign language are not printed in italics but remain in roman print; but if

they are italics in a quotation, they must be left so;

.The name of the author of a book or article should on the first occasion it is mentioned

be given in full exactly as the author gives it. The title of a book is to be in italics (if

need be, to be indicated by underlining), with, if appropriate, the volume number

referred to by an upper case roman numeral (not in italics), the edition (not in italics),

the year of publication, section or paragraph numbers and page number (the page

number should be preceded by a p if there is a section or paragraph number). Thus:

Fritz Kalhoven & Liebeth Zegveld Constraints on the Waging of War 3ed (2001) }III

4.2 p 53:

James Crawford The International Law Commission’s Articles on State Responsi

bility (2002) para 4 p 153;

DP O’Connell International Law II 2ed (1970) 842 (cited in J Dugard International

Law: A South African Perspective 3ed (2005) 238).

Thomas M Franck Recourse to Force (2002) 49.

The title of an article is to be in roman type, surrounded by single quotation marks.

The name of the journal is to be in italics, in full. The year and the volume number

and part (if any) are to be given. Thus:

Hennie Strydom ‘Jus ad bellum and jus in bello in the South African Constitution’

(2004) 29 South African Yearbook of International Law 78.

Jutta Brunne´ and J Stephan Toope ‘The Use of Force: International Law After Iraq’

(2004) 53:4 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 785.

.‘section’, with reference to an enactment, is spelt out in full as the first word of a

sentence, but otherwise is ‘s’ (plural ‘ss’); subsection is subsec (plural ‘subsecs’);

similarly, ‘paragraph’ is spelt out in full as the first word of a sentence, but otherwise

is ‘para’ (plural ‘paras’);

.‘section’ with reference to a book or certain foreign codes of law is }(plural }});

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